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You Are Any Body: A Response to Secularizing Buddhist Ethics, with Caroline Savery – Part 2
In Part 2 of their talk, Caroline and Marco continue exploring the relation between meditation and the body. Can meditation can help transmute the karma that comes with the development of abstract thinking and the rise of civilization? Caroline argues that the expansion of the notion of the individual I, which may have once conferred…
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You Are Any Body: A Response to Secularizing Buddhist Ethics, with Caroline Savery – Part 1
In this episode, Marco and Caroline formulate their responses to the Buddhist Geeks podcast episode “Secularizing Buddhist Ethics” with Vincent Horn and Stephen Batchelor. Caroline explains how her understanding of the ways consciousness materially evolves in complex systems—via Douglas Hofstadter of Godel, Escher, Bach and Maturana/Varela’s Santiago School Theory of Cognition—intersects profoundly with her understanding…
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Clean Language for Writers and Artists, with John Davis
John Davis and Marco V Morelli discuss who could benefit from Clean Language training, and John attempts to help Marco understand how Clean Language could help writers and artists develop richer metaphorical landscapes. John also relates his experiences as a counselor and activist during the AIDS crisis, and touches on how psychic and paranormal experiences…
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The Ethics of Dialogue: Conversation as a Spiritual Practice
What happens when we bring some of the same principles of a meditation or mindfulness practice into our conversations with each other? That is to say, what becomes possible when we become fully present and engaged in the experience of listening, speaking, and relating to others as a dialogical practice?
